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like the title says... oh, and it's really killing me!

'Trust'

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Its for people who still have 56k dial up internet, the images take forever to load. So its a warning that there are alot of images and it will take awhile to see them.

Xx01CamaroZ28xX

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Why is it killing you?? Do you still have a 56k modem???

Jeresous

Maybe hes on 14.4, god knows I'd die if I were on 14.4...

SS4Luck

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would the forum even load on a 14?? lol

99z28monster

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good thing I have lightning fast connection speeds and My comp has a terabite of memory.

dementia

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i'm on dsl and its TOO slow. i need to get faster dsl or cable.

BatmobileSS

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Is dial up something the dinosaurs used to hunt food?

Mistacamawo

i hate 56k warnings. if you have 56k you know damned well that everything is going to take forever to load.

vipert/a

k i get it now. not familiar with that term (56k) i have dsl. thanks guys

z34_nut

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56k was used to build the pyramids. Slow moving, yet effective.

Jeresous

I have to agree actually, I think I'll stop with the 56k warnings... if anything just to encourage those with 56k to upgrade, and then maybe after they've done that they can go purchase a color TV too.

NightWindDriftr

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Effective is key. I remember when the kings of the internet were the dudes with multiple merged dial-up connections. Dual modems were awesome.

SweeTbone

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Somebody start a poll to see how many people still have 56K or less. Even though we use the Low Tech Pushrod design, almost every LS1 owner here should be High Tech enough not to have dial up. I've had cable modem for over 6 years now. Seriously.

Billy_B4C

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I have to use dialup when I am at work b/c my boss is too cheap to get high speed. Yes, it does take this forum FOREVER to load.

530transam

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man i just barely switched over like 4 months ago. My parents are farmers and we live down a private road. No cable. No dsl. Dish is too slow. Then i found out they offered something called a metro cell service. I got put on a waiting list cause they were at full capacity. Finally i got it and its awesome. I have this little box on top of my house and i guess the antennas on these mountains like 10 miles away emits microwave signals. Pretty cool and uber fast

Sharpe

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Agreed.

And, as this post proves, dial-up modems are so outdated that some people are barely familiar with the technology at all. 56K warnings were needed seven years ago, started to become unnecessary three or four years ago, and now are frivolous and annoying.

I have to get on dial-up (laptop) at my parents in the country, and LS1Tech.com is almost out of the question. If it weren't for the ads, I think it would load much quicker. Too bad there's not a text only version with no smilies or ads. But, I doubt that wouldn't go over well with the sponsors!

I was a shotgun modem user back in the day. Diamond made it. Wanted a quad modem, but it cost just a little too much. It was like $500+ I think.

Gipraw

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I ran 4 USR Couriers on my machine in the mid 90's (about $750 worth of modems), when I lived in a town without broadband .. was semi quick. worked well enough that both the wife an I could use the connection at the same time without too much slow down.

was pretty interesting to listen to all four modems dial in and connect in succession.

87formy

I have an extension on my firefox that blocks all of those ads (sorry ls1tech, I still visit them occasionally), you can also block all of the images, might want to look into it.

Also, like whoever else said it, my dsl is too slow!!! I'm getting 1.5mb/s and it's not cutting it! I saw verison fios I think advertising 20mb/s, it doesn't come to my house